Export content from Tiny News using JSON files, and generate a zip file you can import into a Ghost installation.

To install the CLI, which is required for the Usage commands below:

npm install --global @tryghost/migrate

To use this package in your own project:

npm install @tryghost/mg-tinynews --save

or

yarn add @tryghost/mg-tinynews

To run a Ghost API migration, the required command is:

migrate tinynews --url https://example.com --articles /path/to/articles.json

It's possible to pass more options, in order to achieve a better migration file for Ghost:

• --url (required)
  • string - default: null
  • URL to live site
• --articles (required)
  • string - default: null
  • Path to articles JSON file
• --pages
  • string - default: null
  • Path to pages JSON file
• --newsletters
  • string - default: null
  • Path to newsletters JSON file
• --authors
  • string - default: null
  • Path to authors JSON file
• --verbose
  • bool - default: false
  • Show verbose output
• --zip
  • bool - default: true
  • Create a zip file
• --scrape
  • Configure scraping tasks
  • string - default: all
  • Choices: all, web, none
• --addPrimaryTag
  • string - default: null
  • Provide a tag name which should be added to every post as primary tag
• --fallBackHTMLCard
  • bool - default: true
  • Fall back to convert to HTMLCard, if standard Mobiledoc convert fails
• --cache
  • Persist local cache after migration is complete (Only if --zip is true)
  • bool - default: true

A more complete migration command could look like this:

migrate tinynews --url http://example.com --articles /path/to/articles.json --pages /path/to/pages.json --newsletters /path/to/newsletters.json --authors /path/to/authors.json

This will get all posts, pages, newsletters, and authors.

This is a mono repository, managed with lerna.

Follow the instructions for the top-level repo.

1. git clone this repo & cd into it as usual
2. Run yarn to install top-level dependencies.

To run a local development copy, cd into this directory, and use yarn dev instead of migrate like so:

yarn dev tinynews [options]

• yarn lint run just eslint
• yarn test run lint and tests

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